Megan Ferkel Earhart is an associate with the JMBM's Taxation and Trusts and Estates Groups. JMBM’s Trusts & Estates Group is recognized by U.S. News & World Report / Best Law Firms® with a National First Tier ranking in Trusts & Estates Law. Her practice includes estate planning, probate, trust administration and related income, gift and estate tax matters.
She has authored and co-authored articles on estate planning in the Los Angeles Daily Journal and Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine and lectures to audiences on estate planning, including the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Jewish Community Foundation and USC Trusts and Estates Conference. She serves as an Executive Committee member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Trusts and Estates Section. She has also been recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star and a Southern California Top Female Attorney.
Ms. Earhart is a native of the Los Angeles area and is active in charitable organizations.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- California
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- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
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- English
- Attorney
- Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
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- Attorney
- Hoffman Sabban & Watenmaker
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- Attorney
- Calleton, Merritt, De Francisco & Bannon, LLP
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- Attorney
- Goldfarb, Sturman & Averbach
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- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- LL.M. (2013)
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- Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- J.D. (2010)
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- University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- B.A. (2006)
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- Rising Star
- Southern California Super Lawyers
- 2015-2019
- Top Women Attorneys in Southern California
- Southern California Super Lawyers
- 2015-2018
- The State Bar of California
- Member
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- Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Trusts & Estates Section, Executive Committee
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- New Rules for Basis Consistency Reporting of Inherited Assets
- Los Angeles Lawyer
- California Trusts & Estates Quarterly: Tax Symposium
- California Trusts & Estates Quarterly
- Los Angeles Daily Journal: The New Standard for Testamentary Capacity
- Los Angeles Daily Journal
- 2nd District Decision Shields Trustees of Revocable Trusts from Liability
- Problem Children and Other Dysfunctions, Center for Estate and Gift Planning (PEPNET), Pepperdine University
- Center for Estate and Gift Planning (PEPNET)
- Problem Children and Other Dysfunctions, The Tax & Estate Planning Forum
- The Tax & Estate Planning Forum
- Woodland Hills Tax & Estate Planning Council: Family Dynamics: Problem Children and Other Dysfunctions
- Woodland Hills Tax & Estate Planning Council
- Abacaus Wealth Partners, Lunch N’ Learn: Tax Planning Under The 2017 Tax Act: Should the Tail Wag the Dog?, Tax Planning Under The 2017 Tax Act
- Abacaus Wealth Partners, Lunch N’ Learn
- California Society of CPAs: The Certainty of Death & Taxes: Understanding Estates and Trusts in the Ever-Changing Environment
- California Society of CPAs
